As he sat down for an interview with Time magazine for his “person of the year” profile, Donald Trump explained his tough view on illegal immigration by retrieving a copy of the Long Island newspaper Newsday and pointing to a blaring headline: “Extremely Violent Gang Faction.”

In the midst of his Cabinet deliberations, President-elect Donald Trump flew to Ohio Thursday to meet with victims and families after the latest U.S. outbreak of violence, a sombre duty that became all too familiar to his predecessor.

Dylann Roof’s mother suffered a heart attack not long after prosecutors described how her son planned a cold and calculated killing of nine black church members in a racially motivated attack, the white man’s attorney said in court documents Thursday.

He became a hero as the first American
to orbit the Earth and then served as
a longtime U.S. senator. But John
Glenn, who died Thursday at age 95,
continued to defy gravity decades
after his initial flight.